The aggregate claim amount in a particular time period is a quantity of fundamental importance for proper management of an insurance company and also for pricing of insurance coverages. In this paper, we show that the proportional hazard rates (PHR) model, which includes some well-known...

When a bonus–malus system with a single set of optimal relativities and a set of simple transition rules is implemented, two inadequacy scenarios are induced because all policyholders are subject to the same a posteriori premium relativities (level transitions) independent of their a priori...

Tail order of copulas can be used to describe the strength of dependence in the tails of a joint distribution. When the value of tail order is larger than the dimension, it may lead to tail negative dependence. First, we prove results on conditions that lead to tail negative dependence for...

We investigate the total time of deducting fees for variable annuities with state-dependent fee. This fee charging method is studied recently by Bernard et al. (2014) and Delong (2014) in which the fees deducted from the policyholder’s account depend on the account value. However, both of them...

This paper considers an optimal investment and excess-of-loss reinsurance problem with delay for an insurer under Heston’s stochastic volatility (SV) model. Suppose that the insurer is allowed to purchase excess-of-loss reinsurance and invests her surplus in a financial market consisting of...

In this paper, we study optimal asset allocation and benefit outgo policies of DC (defined contribution) pension plan. We extend He and Liang model (2013a,b) to describe dynamics of individual fund scale during distribution period. The fund scale is affected by investment return, benefit outgo...

Given a portfolio of risks, we study the marginal behavior of the ith risk under an adverse event, such as an unusually large loss in the portfolio or, in the case of a portfolio with a positive dependence structure, to an unusually large loss for another risk. By considering some particular...

In this paper, we propose AR-GARCH (autoregression-generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity) models to fit and forecast mortality rates for a given age by two alternative approaches. Specifically, one approach is to fit a time series of mortality rates for some age to an...

This paper analyzes the optimal proportional reinsurance and investment problem for an insurer in a defaultable market. We assume that the reinsurance premium is calculated via the exponential premium principle. The insurer can allocate his/her wealth among the following securities: a bank...

Because human capital is often the largest asset an investor possesses when he is young, protecting human capital from potential risks should be considered as a part of overall investment advice. The risk of the loss of the policyholder’s human capital–the mortality risk–to the household...